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Interior Department to pay Lower Colo. Basin users for water reductions

10/12/22 4:53 PM By Noah Wicks
KEYWORDS Bureau of Reclamation Camille Touton Colorado River Inflation Reduction Act irrigation districts Lake Mead Lower Colorado Basin Lower Colorado Basin System Conservation and Efficiency Program western drought

The Interior Department announced Wednesday its plans to funnel part of the $4 billion in drought funding it received through the Inflation Reduction Act into a program that would pay Lower Colorado Basin water users to leave portions of their water deliveries in Lake Mead. 


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Noah Wicks
Associate Editor

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